Study title

Finnish Working Life Barometer 1995

Dataset ID Number

FSD2657

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2657
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2657

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Ministry of Labour
• Statistics Finland

Abstract

The survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finland. Main themes were job characteristics, work environment, conflicts at the workplace, influence over decisions, working hours, wages, employment security and equality. The year 1995 survey contained new questions on team work and employee ideas for improvement.

First, the respondents were asked how many years they had worked for the employer they were working for at the time, type of contract, number of persons and the proportion of women at the workplace, what kind of changes there had been in staff numbers, working hours and contracts over the past 12 months, and whether people had been transferred to other units. Further questions covered team work at the workplace, whether there had been conflicts at the workplace, between what groups and whether the conflicts had decreased or increased over the past 12 months. Employee influence over, for instance, workload and tasks, and changes in the degree of incfluence were investigated as well as trade union influence and R's membership in a trade union or a professional association.

Next set of questions covered overtime at work, overtime compensation, job characteristics, and changes over the past year in workload, physical or mental stress, in access to training etc. Wage level and pay systems were charted. One topic pertained to whether the respondents had presented any ideas to improve working conditions, products, services or working methods at the workplace and how the ideas had been received. They were asked how likely it was that they would be dismissed or laid off, or their tasks or working hours would be changed over the next year.

Opinions were charted on employment situation in Finland and what kind of changes were happening in working life in, for instance, relating to management style, possibility to influence decisions, the financial situation of their organisation. Some questions focused on equality between men and women at the workplace, the gender of colleagues, persons who supervised the respondents or whom they surpervised, and whether men had been favoured and women discriminated against in pay, access to training, dismissal, career advancement or in getting support from the supervisor. Incidents of sexual harassment were charted.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, year of birth, degree of urbanity of the municipality of residence, region, occupational group, status in employment, industry of employment, employer type, economic activity, weekly working hours, additional jobs, industry of additional job, basic and vocational education, marital status, and the number and ages of children in the household. Most background variables were obtained from the Labour Force Survey 1995 telephone interviews.

Keywords

employees; equality between the sexes; job characteristics; job security; personnel management; personnel policy; wages; workers participation; working conditions; workloads

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Equality, inequality and social exclusion (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Employment (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Labour relations/conflict (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Working conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Occupational health (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Finnish Working Life Barometers

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• Statistics Finland

Time Period Covered

1995

Collection Dates

1995-09 – 1995-10

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Finnish-speaking employees aged 18 - 64 who worked at least 10 hours a week

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Data Sources

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Labour force survey 1995. Helsinki: Statistics Finland.

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Simple random

Simple random sample from the population register. For its Labour Force Survey 1995, Statistics Finland drew a random sample of people aged between 15 - 74 and living in Finland. From the Labour Force Survey sample, Finnish-speaking employees aged 18 - 64 who had responded being employed for at least 10 hours a week were selected for the Working Life Barometer.

Collection Mode

Telephone interview

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

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Number of Cases and Variables

123 variables and 1067 cases.

Data Version

2.0

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

Ministry of Labour & Statistics Finland: Finnish Working Life Barometer 1995 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-27). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2657

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Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Materials

Ylöstalo, Pekka & Kauppinen, Timo & Heikkilä, Asko. Työolobarometri. Marraskuu 1995. Helsinki: Työministeriö.

Related Publications

Ylöstalo, Pekka & Kauppinen, Timo & Heikkilä, Asko (1996). Työolobarometri. Marraskuu 1995. Helsinki: Työministeriö. Työpoliittinen tutkimus; 145.

Alasoini, Tuomo (2006). Työnteon mielekkyyden muutos Suomessa vuosina 1992 - 2005. Työolobarometrin aineistoihin perustuva analyysi. Helsinki: Työministeriö. Työelämän kehittämisohjelman Tykesin raportteja 45.

Silvennoinen, H. & Nori, H. (2017) In the Margins of Workplace Learning. Journal of Workplace Learning 29 (3), 185-199.

Silvennoinen, H. & Nori, H. (2012) Ikääntyvien koulutus monimuotoistuvassa työelämässä. Finnish Journal for Adult Education, Aikuiskasvatus 32 (3), 177-189.

Silvennoinen, H. & Nori, H. (2014) Koulutuksen ja oppimisen marginaalissa. Teoksessa K. Brunila & U. Isopahkala-Bouret (toim.) Marginaalin voima, 102-127. Helsinki: Kansanvalistusseura.

Laine, P. & Lindberg, M. & Silvennoinen, H. (2016) Työhyvinvoinnista tarvitaan väestötason seurantatietoa. Työhyvinvoinnin käsite ja mittaamisen problematisointia ja kehittelyä. Hallinnon tutkimus 35 (4), 257-273.